Mark Phenicie is a collector of all things old.  He’s a man who can look at an object, add a flash of creative thought and turn that object into something […]

Forever The Fallen rose from the ashes of the short-lived but promising Contender Rising. Bassist Dan Edwards and guitarist Brandon Francis carry on under a new name with vocalist Jason […]

Austin Marsh, 19, is the oldest member of the band The Union Project. The other four members are still in high school. But don’t let that fool you. Though they’ve […]

Having grown up in a family of musicians, Jonathan Busarow’s path to music education might appear to be a foregone conclusion. But that wasn’t necessarily the case. “I always thought […]

Listening to Ordinary Van’s first, self-titled new record is both a great experience and a bittersweet one. Lead singer and main songwriter Paul Bates, since this album’s release, has headed […]

One of the things that’s fun about the End Times Spasm Band – aside from their simple tendency to have fun, of course – is the band’s ability to find […]

For some performers, theater is in their blood. This statement could not be truer of Stuart Hepler, who stars as Beethoven in the current Fort Wayne Civic Theatre production of […]

Suzan Moriarty can’t pinpoint the moment she became interested in performing. But the self-described “very quiet little girl” remembers loving to imitate TV commercials. “There were many times that I […]